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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 December 18: More Chinese market upheval, EU banking authority warning about BTC, Tor Project thumbs-up Bitcoin donations
After reaching $1000, Bitcoin market value has seen a bit of turmoil and a tumble with China being at the forefront. Rumors and regulation make the grade and Dr. Bitcoin has weighed in on the trajectory of the currency’s value and the expectations involving China and India. This Wednesday, that rumor is starting to look ...
Casascius coins shuts down after notice from the Federal Government
Back in 2011 when the amazing and beautiful Casascius coins came to my attention it seemed obvious that the minted “coins” could be considered anything more than novelty. However, seeing as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (or FINCEN) has sent Mike Caldwell a nastygram regarding his business of minting the bitcoin-wallet holding coins citing his ...
Margaret Dawson on HP cloud strategy: Open, enterprise ready, and hybrid
Wikibon’s Chief Analyst Dave Vellante sat down with VP of Marketing, Cloud Evangelist, HP Cloud Services Margaret Dawson to talk about HP’s current cloud solution and how it impacts the current outlook for enterprise. Right now, theCube is at HP Discover Barcelona 2013 separating the signal from the noise and speaking with a multitude of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 December 10: BoA gives BTC a $15b market cap, China didn’t ban bitcoin, Snoop Dogg gives props
As the value of BTC continues to hover around $1,000 more and more parts of the financial industry are beginning to wake up to the effect and practicality of virtual currency–and recently this means that Bank of America put it sights on Bitcoin by placing a market cap of $15 billion on it. Although news ...
Not just the Lich King, it’s the NSA: Real world agents making avatars in World of Warcraft
The NSA, and its UK sister the GCHQ, have both seen operatives spending long hours in front of computer screens and under headphones listening to the chatter of a million wiretaps, Skype calls, and cell phone conversations—but what hasn’t been revealed until now is how much time the spy agencies have spent in the virtual ...
Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How environmentally friendly is Bitcoin?
“I keep hearing that Bitcoin is powered by computers and that mining it can take a lot of energy. How environmentally friendly is Bitcoin?” asks Concerned About the Environment. Concerned here has a good question about the nature and distribution of Bitcoin and it’s one that has come up before such as this Ars Technica ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 December 4: Bitcoinity switches to mBTC, Kevin Rose speaks, CoinMap maps, and China rises
It’s a week after BTC value exceeded $1,000 and we had Bitcoin Friday (taking advantage of the “retail holiday” Black Friday.) As a result of the value in excess of $1,000 popular market charting website Bitcoinity has switched to mBTC for display purposes. Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, had words to say about the bitcoin ...
NASA’s NextGen air traffic control lab gets a development collaboration upgrade with Stash
NASA is a big name in the aeronautics field even beyond the public consciousness of knowing NASA means “going into space”; but beyond being the Star Trek of the modern era, NASA also works tirelessly to make the skies safer. One of NASA’s teams out of Armes Research Center is part of a project known ...
Using Big Data to predict product launch succcess with dunnhumby stats at hack/reduce
Back in May, Kaggle ran a competition with hack/reduce and dunnhumby focused on using big data predictive analysis on product launches. The objective: to discover how to predict the level of success or failure of a product by looking at the first few weeks of sales. Called the “Product launch challenge” the hackathon brought in ...
Bitcoin value hits $1,000
In what is by far the first ever time, BTC value has hit an average of $1,000 USD across exchanges. This is historic perhaps only because modern mathematics is base-10 and people psychologically love powers of ten, but it’s also notable because that’s a lot of money. Right now, on BitcoinAverage, 1 BTC = $1,000.36 ...